July is the hottest month ever in recorded history and the first six months of 2016 the hottest in history, too.

NASA said July was indeed the hottest month in recorded history despite the demise of El Niño and was 0.84C warmer than the global average temperature from 1950 to 1980. Records go back to 1880.

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July was also warmer than the previous record set in July 2011 and July 2015, which were tied for the hottest month on record, said Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a NASA climate scientist. It was also 0.84°C warmer than global average from 1951-1980.

NASA's five hottest months on record are July 2016, July 2011, July 2015, July 2009 and August 2014. Only July 2015 was during an El Niño. It also reported that July the 10th record hot month in a row,.

NASA also reported the U.S., Siberia and the Middle East all experienced extreme heat waves. The U.S.' three largest metropolitan areas (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) all experienced heat wave alerts in July.

Scientists blame mostly man-made climate change from the burning of fossil fuel for the record heat spike.

Dr. Schmidt said this new record and all the records that have been broken recently years told a cohesive story.

"The planet is getting warmer," he said. "It's important for what it tells us about the future."

Dr. Schmidt confirmed that July 2016 "was absolutely the hottest month since instrumental records began."

He said there was a 99 percent chance 2016 would now break annual global temperature records.

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